The Minor Counties Championship 1902

133 OXFORDSHIRE 1902 Championship matches: Played 8, won 2, lost 2, drawn 4 (won on first innings none, lost on first innings 3, no decision on first innings 1) Position: Ninth equal with Devon and Yorkshire 2 nd XI out of sixteen Won: v Bedfordshire at Oxford, and v Berkshire at Oxford Lost: v Hertfordshire at Bishop’s Stortford, and v Staffordshire at Stoke-on-Trent Drawn – won on first innings: none Drawn – lost on first innings: v Berkshire at Reading, v Bedfordshire at Bedford GS, and v Hertfordshire at Oxford Drawn – no decision on first innings: v Staffordshire at Oxford. Captain: C E Brownrigg (4 matches) – H Bassett (2 matches), D C Lee (1 match), and W Smith (1 match) captained the side in the four matches in which C E Brownrigg did not play Wicket-keeper: J W Marsh (8 matches) Debutants: 12 (R N R Blaker, A E Bradshaw, W T Brooks, H F Fox, J Goldsworthy, J H Knight, B C B Molloy, T H F Pellatt, M T Phillips, H Smith, W Turner and E Wakelin) Final season: 14 (R N R Blaker, A E Bradshaw, C E Brownrigg, E D Compton, H F Fox, J Goldsworthy, J H Knight, D C Lee, B C B Molloy, T H K Moulder, T H F Pellatt, M T Phillips, F Smart and G R Wood) Hon Secretary: H M Turner Professionals: 4 (A Rogers, P Rogers, F Smart and W Turner) Home ground 1: Hertford College Ground, Iffley Road, Oxford (4 matches). Notes: Oxfordshire ended up in ninth equal place in the competition, compared with seventh equal in 1901. Hertfordshire and Staffordshire replaced Cambridgeshire and Wiltshire on the fixture list. C E Brownrigg replaced C C Bradford as captain. During the season, career milestones passed were one thousand runs by P Rogers and 300 wickets by A Rogers. Having played one season for Oxfordshire, H F Fox was to play for Suffolk between 1904 and 1908, including captaining the team in 1904 and 1905. OXFORDSHIRE MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1902 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 12 players who made their Championship debut for Oxfordshire during the season. Names in bold denote that 1902 was the last or only season that these 14 players appeared for Oxfordshire in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I H Bassett 6 7 1 38 144 24.00 - - - 3 - 92 20 239 10 23.90 3-39 - - R N R Blaker + 1 2 0 8 12 6.00 - - - 2 - - - - - - - - - A E Bradshaw + 1 2 0 11 17 8.50 - - - - - - - - - - - - - W T Brooks + 3 3 1 31* 40 20.00 - - - - - 23.1 3 100 6 16.66 3-22 - - C E Brownrigg 4 5 0 85 158 31.60 - 1 - 3 - - - - - - - - - W S Case 5 7 1 43* 78 13.00 - - 3 4 - 14 1 63 2 31.50 1-28 - - E D Compton 4 4 0 50 86 21.50 - 1 - 6 - - - - - - - - - H F Fox + 3 4 1 115* 253 84.33 1 1 - 2 - 6 0 30 0 - - - - J Goldsworthy + 1 2 0 0 0 0.00 - - 2 - - - - - - - - - - J H Knight + 1 1 0 0 0 0.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - D C Lee 1 2 0 0 0 0.00 - - 2 - - - - - - - - - - J F Marsh 8 11 0 117 344 31.27 1 1 1 - - 2 0 13 0 - - - - J W Marsh 8 11 1 53 146 14.60 - 1 1 10 1 - - - - - - - - B C B Molloy + 1 2 0 0 0 0.00 - - 2 - - - - - - - - - - M Molloy 3 4 0 53 102 25.50 - 1 - - - 9 1 30 0 - - - - T H K Moulder 2 2 0 44 50 25.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - T H F Pellatt + 1 1 1 3* 3 - - - - - - 5 0 24 0 - - - - M T Phillips + 1 1 0 6 6 6.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - F B Roberts 2 3 0 26 28 9.33 - - - 1 - 26.1 2 55 2 27.50 1-12 - - Rogers, A 8 10 0 54 130 13.00 - 1 2 1 - 243.2 59 673 47 14.31 8-33 2 5 Rogers, P 7 9 0 41 97 10.77 - - 2 2 - 196 25 546 33 16.54 7-78 - 4 Smart, F 1 2 2 3* 3 - - - - - - 2 0 5 0 - - - - H Smith + 3 3 2 12* 15 15.00 - - - 3 - 5 0 17 1 17.00 1-7 - - W Smith 2 2 0 34 46 23.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - J R F Turner 2 2 0 2 2 1.00 - - 1 - - 15 3 42 0 - - - - Turner, W + 1 2 0 3 3 1.50 - - 1 - - 3 0 15 0 - - - - E Wakelin + 3 4 1 55 58 19.33 - 1 - 1 - - - - - - - - - H E Walker 2 3 1 9* 17 8.50 - - - - - 1 0 10 0 - - - - A J S Willson 1 2 0 13 16 8.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - G R Wood 2 2 0 20 20 10.00 - - 1 2 - - - - - - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 120 - - - - - - - - 116 2 - - - - Total 88 115 12 117 1994 19.35 2 8 19 42 1 642.4 114 1978 103 19.20 8-33 2 9 (30 players) (6 ball overs)